Jacob luxem



(N0 Model.)

J. LUXEM.

PANNING MILL.

"No, 267,699. PatentedNov. 21, 1882.

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JACOB LUXEM, OF RACINE, WISCONSIN.

FANNINGMILL.

y SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 267,699, dated November 21, 1882.

Application tiled March 15,-1882. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JACOB LUXEM, of Racine, in the county of Racine, and in the State ot' Wisconsin, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Fanning-Mills; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description thereof'.

My invention relates to fanning-mills, and

' will be fully described hereinafter.

In the drawings, Figure l is a vertical longitudinal section ot' my device, and Fig. 2 is a horizontalsection on line w w, Fig. 1.

A is the first hopper, that takes the wheat from the tloor. In this hopper I have ashoe, Al, containing sieves a a a'. have perforations sufficiently large to permit the grains of Vwheat 'to fall through, while the perforations in sieve a are too small for wheat to pass through, and will only` permit the dust and small seed to settlethrough to a slantiug iloor, b, and from the bottom of this floor, on one side, I lead a pipe, c, to the center of a drum, B. rlhe Wheat, when it leaves the sieves a a, falls onto a slanting shelf, a2, and is conveyed to openings d' d at the bottom of each end `of the shelf, and thence down into the hopper D; but before it reaches the openings d it encounters a blast from the fanwheel E, guided by board b', through a narrow open1ng,d,which relieves it of its dust as itfalls to the hopper. The shelf a2, it will be observed, slants downward from its center to its ends, to guide the wheat Vso that it may fall in front of the spouts D 5 and its front edges are inclined to meet the angle of the board a3, so as to de- The sieves a o' D and forces it out through a spoutF. To give additional force to the fan-wheel G, I may make a partition in its center. The dust from chamber b is also drawn into the drum B by the wheel C, a spout, c, serving to convey the -dust from the lowercorner of the floor of said chamber.

rIhe rest of the machine (not referred to by letter) is old, and its operation is too Well known to need description here.

The shoe A is to be provided with any wellknown shaking mechanism, so as to be coustantly agitated.

What I claim as my invention isl. Thecombination, in a fanning-m'ill, of the hopper A, having shaking-shoe A', containin g tine and coarse sieves,.with the fan-wheel E,

drum B, fan-whel C, spouts D D andF, hopper D, and slanting shell' a2, and the casing having an opening to conduct the air from fanwheel E through the Wheat into drum B, substantially as shown and described, and for the purpose set forth.

.JACOB LUXEM.

' Witnesses:

STANLEY S. STOUT, HAROLD G. UNDEEWOOD. 

